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| Amended U.S. Presidential Executive Order 8389 ordered a freeze of the Baltic states' assets in the U.S.. |
| Olga Taratuta, a Ukrainian anarcho-communist, escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence. |
| The Maori Merchant of Venice was the first Maori language film adaptation of any of William Shakespeare's plays. |
| gridiron football defensive end Justin Brown was named in six All-American teams when playing at East Central University from 2001 to 2004. |
| Henry Eckford, built in New York in 1824, was the world's first steamship to be powered by a compound engine. |
| Mexican singer Vicente Fernández selected the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, to release his single "Necesito de Tí". |
| bamboo coral specimens (pictured) have been found that are 4,000 years old. |
| The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a $25 penalty it had been ordered to pay to a farmer. |
| The little balls of fibers that appear on clothing due to wear are called pills. |
| Joseph Wicks, a lawyer and judge in Washington State and the first city attorney of Grand Coulee, was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. |
| The number of women elected in the 2002 Moroccan parliamentary election increased to 35 from only 2 in the previous election in 1997. |
| The Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky, is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery. |
| The Orckestra's debut performance was at the Moving Left Revue, a Communist Party benefit concert in London in 1977. |
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